From everyone at Rydalmere FC, we wish all of you a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

We can certainly look forward to 2016 with great hope after what has been a very positive and enjoyable year for the club both on and off the pitch.

We would like to thank our supporters for their backing throughout the season. We hope you were proud of the team’s displays. The strides made by the club in a short space of time are a testament to the work being done by everyone. Without your support we would not have been able to make this progress.

At the same time, we need more support to be able to push onto the next level and we are hoping to see big crowds on a more consistent basis at Rydalmere Park when the new season kicks off.

It really is a team effort here at Rydalmere FC. We wish to thank all the volunteer staff who do a wonderful job behind the scenes in various roles running the club on a daily basis. You have helped to grow the club to what it is today.

Our many sponsors are also invaluable to us and again, we thank them for their continued support over the past year and look forward to building on our already good relationships with them in 2016.

We wish everyone a very happy time over the festive period. We are looking forward to seeing you all in 2016.Here’s to an even bigger and better year ahead!

We are pleased to release our new website www.rydalemerefc.com.au. We hope and trust you will find easy to use and informative.

This time around, you will find many new features that will make your visit more exciting and interesting.

Soon to come, we will give you further insights into the club with interviews from The board, Coaches, players and sponsors.

The club will communicate to you via different means from time to time, but you should understand that this website will contain all information that the club wants to communicate to its members, sponsors and supporters.

As we are now very definitely in the electronic/digital age of communication, we will use email, and various social media to communicate to you. Depending on the circumstance, we might use one or all of these digital options available to us and you.

Please share the contents on this website with your friends and colleagues, by email, Facebook and other social networking sites.

So browse around to find out more about Rydalmere FC and please send us feedback or inquiries through the "Contact" page.

Rydalmere FC is a well-established clubs that have been supporting young talent within the community for more than 30 years. We are a family club with high aspirations, working with the local community to further grow and develop.

More recently, Rydalmere FC has strengthened the ability to invest, develop, mentor and inspire our youth. We are creating a pathway for juniors to realistically aspire to reach their football aspirations. Local juniors now have direct access to NSW Premier League coaching staff and a Premier League team, presenting a path for progression through the various levels of competition available in NSW.

Rydalmere FC continues to play in the Granville & Districts Soccer Football Association competition, where we have had a tremendous amount of success over the years and look to build on that success in the future. We are a family club with high aspirations, working with the local community to further grow and develop.

The organisational structure of the club has changed, meaning the Rydalmere FC Committee now has new members comprising of successful, intelligent and highly motivated individuals with varied business backgrounds. As a committee we aim to continue the clubs expansion and development of its facilities, while continuing the promotion of football in the area and providing the highest quality development for all players, coaches, managers, parents and volunteers. One way we are doing this is through the implementation of the Western Sydney Wanderers Junior Football Development Program from 2015 onwards.

Five key values set the foundation of our club. They are integrity, inclusiveness, safety, sustainability and continued development.

What this means for our players:

As a secure and sustainable football club, we will do our upmost to help you develop and achieve your football goals;

Providing the best training plans for all our players to deliver football excellence at all levels with the help of the state’s best junior coaches; and

The Rydalmere FC board in conjunction with the committee has established targets and objectives that will create a pathway to achieving the clubs strategic goals. This will build upon the work commenced in early 2014 including the construction of a new facility comprising of the latest standards in change rooms, canteen, amenities and training room for our members, guests and sponsors.

Rydalmere FC will continue to encourage footballers and aspire to facilitate Boys, Girls, Men and Women in developing and participating in football at our club and within the community.

One of our key values is Integrity. We want to be the number one community and family club where the club will be renowned for its safe and honest environment promoting a respectful and responsible football culture across all ages and genders. Ensuring families, community, members and non-members of the club feel valued in their participation in all social events and football games.

We have developed a strategic plan based on the back of three key assumptions:

The continued organic growth and success of the club fueled by interest from our local community to participate in the game;

Junior participation growing by 60% in 2014 compared to season 2013; and

The belief that the game will continue to grow within the Parramatta City region on the back of the success of the Western Sydney Wanderers.

Our vision is for Rydalmere FC will continue in its expansion and development of its facilities, while continuing the promotion of football in the area and providing the highest quality development for all players, coaches, managers and volunteers.We aspire to continually create a professional culture based around respect. This is imperative in empowering Rydalmere FC to develop and grow in order to achieve the following:

Inspire juniors to grow and develop through the ranks;

Create a clear path to a potential professional career;

Attract and retain the best possible coaching staff to create a team to take the club into its next phase of growth;

Attract and support existing talent and develop to the highest football standard;

Work with the community and sister club to raise funds to improve and develop better facilities for future development of the local talent; and

Strengthen the Rydalmere FC brand to be synonymous with professional football.

Our objectives reflect to our past, present and future aims and goals to be achieved with more suitable better equipped circumstances and facilities. In addition to that, we will embrace further future modern Football philosophies, methodologies and high status of professionalism.

We are embarking and seeking guidance from past and present successors using knowledge and advice from our Football friends and colleagues finding ways to be well structured and financially capable of being independent.

We have adopted the new FFA National Curriculum and implementing its components in its entirety. This will be implemented and actioned with highly qualified FFA coaches, coach educators and current coaches embracing our vision and joining us in becoming part of the new Football methodologies, philosophies and the new football trend.